Israeli military finds bodies of 3 hostages in Gaza, including Shani Louk

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******** military finds bodies of 3 hostages in Gaza, including Shani Louk

JERUSALEM (AP) — The ******** military said Friday its troops in Gaza found the bodies of three ******** hostages ******* by ****** during its Oct. 7 *******, including *******-******** Shani Louk.

A photo of 22-year-old Louk’s twisted body in the back of a pickup truck ricocheted around the world and brought to light the scale of the militants’ ******* on communities in southern *******. The military identified the other two bodies as those of a 28-year-old woman, Amit Buskila, and a 56-year-old man, Itzhak Gelerenter.

All three were ******* by ****** while fleeing the Nova music festival, an outdoor dance party near the Gaza border, where militants ******* hundreds of people, military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said at a news conference.

******** Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the deaths “heartbreaking,” saying, “We will return all of our hostages, both the living and the *****.”

The military said the bodies were found overnight, without elaborating, and did not give immediate details on where they were located. ******* has been operating in the Gaza Strip’s southern city of Rafah, where it says it has intelligence that hostages are being held.

******-led militants ******* around 1,200 people, mainly civilians, and abducted around 250 others in the Oct. 7 *******. Around half of those hostages have since been freed, most in swaps for ************ prisoners held by ******* during a weeklong cease-***** in November.

******* says around 100 hostages are still captive in Gaza, along with the bodies of around 30 more. *******’s war in Gaza since the ******* has ******* more than 35,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza health officials.

Netanyahu has vowed to both eliminate ****** and bring all the hostages back, but he’s made little progress. He faces pressure to resign, and the U.S. has threatened to scale back its support over the humanitarian situation in Gaza.

Israelis are divided into two main camps: those who want the government to put the war on hold and free the hostages, and others who think the hostages are an unfortunate price to pay for eradicating ******. On-and-off negotiations mediated by Qatar, the ******* States and Egypt have yielded little.

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